1931. Will lovely woman do the pro- •pOitillff? Will woman bo CH run polí- tica aa they now run the home? Will men wear birda on their bata and crochet? Will the housemaid be u house- man? Will horaea be exhibited aa .curinaitiea? Will politics lie run on a phil- anthropic basis? Will the Boston woman dis- cover the north pole? Will men wear frilled shirt- waist and women trousers? Will the college girl carry a •cane and smoke a pipe? Will there be free lunch stands for women? Will men go to church even- ings instead of to the club? Will the wife kiss the husband good by before starting olí ti business? Will women either wear short skirts or have pages to carry their trains? Will squirrels wait just une quarter of a second lunger to make faces at the hunter? Will rich noblemen marry poor American girls? Will hornets and other sting ing things arbitrate in-tead of fight when their nests are pulled: Will the gra n be extractan from wheat and other cereaU b\ a magnet and save the labor...

PROVISION IN TMR APPROPRIA- TION* RkOARDINO IT. tm la AUmm^-TI . «kip Ww Om tm Iwvmi. Waakigton, D. 0. .January J.—TUe rlvara and harbors bill «u sant to tha printer* laat night. The following la Iba «act language In regard to Buf- falo boron. Qalvnston Ship Channel ami Buffalo Bapon, Texna.—Coutlnulng improve- ment. three hnmired thouaand dollar ; prosidsd, that a contract or contracta may be entered Into by the aeeretory of war for euch malcríala and work aa may be requlnd to prosecute aaid lmpfoveniert, to be paid aa appropria- tions may from time to timo be made by law, not to exceed In the aggre- gate three hundred thouaand exclus- ive of the amouuta herein and hereto- fore appropriated and authorisod to be equally expended upon divlalone one and two in developing a channel of uniform depth In each of said divis- ions between the respective termini A board of three engineer shall be appointed by the pres- ident from civil life, who ehall make an elimination and aurvejr of the w...

5555^555 Tki Willi Imm President MoKinley molting the Mine brand of oigan lor fourteen years. These cigar* ■old him at $7 a hundred. -! Ml — hrtii'i Ra resident Dr. Winthrop Ellsworth Stone, ha aucceeds the late James tt. as president of Purdue uni- versity, has been viee president of that university since 1893. He is 38 yerna of age, and a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural col- lege. He later studied at Goettin- gen. A «real Taaael Project. Omaha capitalists propose to turn the great continautal divide •#* miles west of Denvor and twelve miles south of Georgetown, and operate an electric road through it It will start at the base about miles from Grant and ter- at the headwaters of the river, will be 7000 feet long and 1700 feat deep. The object is to facilitate mining operations. Thff deck Betlraaieat Early. Tha adjutant general's depart- ment haa on file many applications for retirement of officers who have snraad thirty years. Under exist- ing law the president can, at h...

■a*.Av - .r' ET;' A CHINA ARMISTICE REPORTED TO HAVB MEN PROCLAIMED* •i WmUi(«« that ik* K.'HffW •' (MM Kiiwii AwrpUcct u( Mal (su •1 Mm Pwvw* London. January 1.—A dispatch lo Uw Pall Mail Gazette from Pekin, dated Bum:ay, December 110, my* IB imiKkt haa been proclaimed. •wrATUi raou cox oca. Washington, D. C., January 1.—The Mate department ha* received a dis- patch from Minister Conger announc- ing that the Chinese plenipotentiaries hate notified the representatives of the pavers that the emperor decrees the acceptance of their demands as a whole and Prince Cbing requests further conference. They also desire that military excursions to the Inter- ior should cease. It is well known that this last request is in accord- ance with the views of the preaident In diplomatic quarters the accept- aaee given by the Chinese envoys la regarded as an ingenious stroke of diplomacy. Among diplomatic officers It In said that this is not an uncon- dltlsaal acceptance, although it Is neh a concurre...

t PEOPLE YOU KNOW I A. P. Nelmi* went to Temple on butiinea Tuesday. Sol Levi has been in (¿al vea- ton on business thin week. Judge Banks spent several days in Beaumont this week. Kddie ilerbst, of Brenham, is spending a week with relatives here. Judge Moore, of Brazos hot- Judge T. M. Hunt returned Wednesday from a visit to bin daughter at Huntaville, and left yesterday for Cleburne. Misa Cary Richards, of the Mt. Pleasant community, has been visiting in the city this week, returning yesterday even- ing. Mrs. I. H. Bowers and her daughters, Misses Mamie and Louise, of (tiddings, have been visiting Mrs. A F. Grabow this week. Teacbera, wc feel confident that if you would (lause and think of the sacrednesa of the position which you occupy aa guardians of the young mind, moulders of human character and leaders to higher, holier and happier possibilities, it would be futile to call your attention to the necessity of lending every effort that you possibly can to sustain a teachers' ins...

CALDWELL NEWS CALDWELL. TEXAS, 4, 1901. Northbound 1:07 a n " 1:20 pm Southbound 5:15 a m •• 3:10pa Notice. The American gin started last Wednesday for the final run and will cloA down for the season as soon as the cotton on hand is exhausted. If you have cotton and want it ginned on round bale (fin bring it at once before we close down. 32-11 E. G* JlkkinSi Mgr. —The Lowry gin closed for the season last Saturday, having ginned 2234 bales. —Owen Williams was checked in last week as express agent, the office still remaining at O. P. Storm's store. George L. Smith, of Merle, was in town this week on busi- ness and gave us a most pleas- ant call Thursday. —Rev. J. W. Home requests us to announce that be will preach at Cookes Point next Sunday morning, but will preach in town at night. —B. F. Co wen, of Cookes Point, was one of our weícomed visitors Wednesday, and spoke very encouragingly of the News- Chroxiclk. —John Jancik is now behind the counters at Womble, Jenk- ins & Jenkins'...

ps:" 'IIP Caldwell News-Chronicle. OtJK AIM 18 THE CHEATKST UENRK1T TO THE FARMERS AND WORKING PEOPLE OP BURLESON COUNTY. VOL. XXI. CALDWELL. BURLESON COUNTY. TEXAS. FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1901. NO. 33. 3*rom Our S?ura/ Staff, t ********* HOOMRVIIIt. I the home of Mrs. M. J. Pheg- i ley. Hookkhvii i k.'!>*.. Jan. 7. Miss Lee Spradley came home Epitok Nkws i hhomci.j' Sunday for a visit of two weeks Mr. McKnight is visiting in t0 home folks. our community. While hunting Saturday night Mrs. Kcbols Lsther hchols j0hu J. German had his leg se- and Mamie Arnold are on the j vercly cut by barbed wire. sick list this week. W. W. Arnold is in Caldwell this week running the engine for the American round hair yin The former in this commu- Ki:i so. Paint! Paint! Paint! We have just'received a large assortment of mixed paints, nity are busy cleaning up their u{j¡te |Va«i. oils, turpentine, etc., fields thin week. and will quote you right prices C. C. Gillev was in Rockdale' on good good . last ...

THE CALDWELL NEWS-CHRONICLE, CALDWELL, TEXAS JANUARY XI. t of American Jockey'a Method of KM tag A trainer has reccutlv ninth* come very interesting experiment*, to en- deavor to explain t«> himself what there \va. in the American method of riding. The trainer in question had about 150 yards of one of hi* gallop* care- fully watered, mow n and rolled, tak- ing n space of sufficient width to gal- lop ahreat. lie put one of hi* lad* up on one of his horse*, riding in the English style, and sent the horse a six-furlong gallop, across the pre- pared patch in the course of the spin. After carefully measuring the sev- eral at ride* made by the lvor*e across the patch, he then shifted the saddle forward, and the same lad—imitat- ing as far as he wbs able the American Beat—again took the same horn a six- furlong gallop, crossing the patch a little to one side of the track that he had made on the previous occasion. On a measure of the hoofprints of the second gallop being carefully tak- e...

ftp ||pííJp ■ p: ^ ?'' ta l AMONG STRANGE COMPANIONS. ClvUitti Mm Who «**• Idtntlfled Tkia>*ln> with Barbarian*. That highly eiviliml mm should desert their kind, juin savage race® ami actually flght against their own countrymen eeeutts almost incredible. Vet there are many inntancei of the kind, and in nine cums out of ten th«ne deserters from civilization adopt all the worst trait of the peo- ple they join and often usurpa** them in cruelty ami (tunning. In Cochin ('hiña, w here the French have for nearly 20 yearn been carry- ing on a identic* warfare tigainst the bloodthirsty piratee who infest the coaKt . and i-jxcinllv the great rivers, the naval «i¡«1 military forces «very now and upaiu discover that the pirate chiefs whom tltev succeed in capturing are l.urop*Hj>. One of these men had d*Mrt*d front the French arm v. and. m\> Answers, hod become one of the principal lieuten- ant.* of the black tl>ig pirate fon* of the dreaded chi* f ui>d mandarin Doc rich, In...

m. w— average sge of graduation at Yale it about 83 years—82 yean, 9 months and 87 days, to be exact. At Harvard the average graduating age is considerably lass. «•i There has been placed on the walls of the federal building in Boston a portrait of General John M. Corse, the Union commander at the battle of Aitoona Pass, Ga., whore the phrase. "Hold the fort, for I am coming." was originated. —' ••• 1 "■ A faloed Bella. An autograph letter of St. Vin- cent de Paul, the originator in the Boman Catholic church of caroful work for the uplifting of the poor, has lately been acquired by Control* lor 8. Coler of New York city. It bean date September 19,1659, from Paris. Professor Frederick Suirr of i lie University of Chicago, with a photo- grapher, plasterwork ami guide, has gone on another visit of investiga- tion among the unknown tribes of Mexico. He will be Absent half a ¿ear, and expects to complete with liu? journey hie studies of the South Mexican Indians • ^ • Perennial Boppel. F...

■*wm LEGISLATURE. TWMTV - MVtNTH IN* •ION MOW AT WORK. Tuu, January l-Tto legislatura of it hlA noo gay m apeat la It is the general opinion the legialatora that thit *• will be leagthy and wiU be important meoauree to to legislature that Mr- hag* five or ais months My roll by before the lalsh. But as yet there ta ao very great amount of log-rolling sad got a great deal Is botag said ooa- eoralag these matters. The troth Is that a great maay of the legislators bar* been baring a hard timo of It to Cad rooms, the Influx of ogee soshsrs baring already strained the supply mttili lahlj There Is ons mnttsr whleh Is exciting considerable Inter- est although the legislators seem in- disposed to comment upon it with free- dom at this time, and that is the pro- jected investigation of Hon. JoMpk W. Bailey's alleged connection with the adjustment of the Wsters-Ptoroe Oil cotoipnny's dlBculties. Mr. Bailey is on the ground and is sdrislng his friends in the lsgislatora to count oa lar estimati...

THE CALDWELL NEWS-CHRONICLE. CALDWELL, TEXAS, JANUARY U, 1901. I1 I MOUSE PLANTS. Hjr Itttla window tropic*, set with palm. With bright geranium and cat-tun rare. And frail exotic* from a warmer air, That mock our Northern winter with your And «mile at atorma that apare your in- door calm! You breathe of aummer, though the tree are bare, Though ahines the aun on «now and Icy glare. And wind* ar f hoarae from their loud- * welling paalm. In little here you bring the aunny South. Where all the year the gra* wavea In the Held And on the bough the orange-bloaaom clings. The funbeama are the words upon your mouth. By which the law of beauty la revealed. That auronier atlll la at the heart of things. —Curtis May, in Youth's Companion. BILL PAID HIS BOARD The wagon factory had been ehut down for over a mouth and old man McFarland and Mrs. McFarland were getting uneasy. They made their living by taking in boarders, and most of the boarders made their living by working in the factory, the co...